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Land Use Land Cover

Land management and land planning requires a knowledge of the current state of the landscape. Understanding current land cover and how it is being used, along with an accurate means of monitoring change over time, is vital to any person responsible for land management. Measuring current conditions and how they are changing can be easily achieved through land cover mapping, a process that quantifies current land resources into a series of thematic categories, such as forest, water, and paved surfaces. By using remotely sensed imagery and semi-automated classification methods, CartoSolution provides cost-effective and accurate means to derive land resource information and maintain its currency into the future.

WHO BENEFITS FROM LAND COVER MAPPING?

The surface of the Earth is continuously changing at many levels; local, regional, national, and global scales. Changes in land use and land cover are pervasive, rapid, and can have significant impacts for people, the economy, and the environment. Among the organizations that will benefit from the information derived from land cover solutions are:

Federal, state, city, county government agencies
Environment and research organizations
Water districts
Engineering firms
Private forestry organizations

LAND COVER MAPPING APPLICATIONS

CartoSolution land cover products and solutions are used for planning land use and deriving additional thematic layers to support land management applications such as:

Impervious quantifications for stormwater runoff prediction and drainage requirements
Tree canopy calculations for stormwater runoff and pollution impact studies
Irrigated and non-irrigated water use calculations for arid areas
Environmental assessment of undeveloped and vacant land identification
Planning green space and trails for recreational purposes and other urban planning applications
Ecosystem or forest species / community maps
Fire hazard maps that relate to fuel availability for wildland fires
Urban planning assessment

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT

A standard accuracy assessment will be conducted using by selecting a series of random points within the project area to determine whether classification is accurate. Methodology to be used will be determined at the project kickoff meeting

CONDITIONS

Order acceptance subject MoU
Shipping and handling fees may apply.
Price does not include imagery
3 band digital CIR – no extra charge
3 band RGB digital – 10% uplift on price
3 band CIR analog scanned – 10% uplift on price
3 band RGB analog scanned – 15% uplift on price

Deliverables

Dataset will be delivered with an accuracy assessment and FGDC compliant metadata.
Final product will be produced in .TIFF file format, delivered on media appropriate to the size of the file
Hard Drive File Size 4.7 GB
Optional delivery method via FTP (file transfer protocol) allows the file to be downloaded without the use of additional media

Land Use Case Study

More current, accurate, and cost-effective methods for gathering information about landscape change have become available to users in the fields of urban planning, land management, and natural resource conservation. CartoSolution offers three levels of land cover products that can be tailored to meet your project requirements.

Urban Sprawl

Study Urban sprawl is vital part of today urbanization world. It is important to know which part of city is expanding and how fast for both government and private entities. For government it is important to keep city according to master plan and for private entities to track the growing and expanding population for there services and stay ahead of competition. Performing urban sprawl study makes you understand the upcoming trend of land use like:- Land Rates, Infrastructure, Rise in Standard of Living, Tax Rates, etc More...

Parametric land cover and land-use classification

The connected use of land cover and land-use data allows detection of where positive changes occur, what type of change, as well as how the land is transforming. The conventional systems for classification of land cover or land-use are limited in relation to the number of classes and are often values are conflicting. the land cover classification system, a comprehensive parametric classification based upon systematic description of classes using a set of independent quantifiable diagnostic criteria. With this approach land cover change detection becomes possible at the level of conversion of a class, whereas modification within a certain class type becomes immediately point out by a difference in classifier. More...